Madness and Glory

by Albert Rothenberg

Book Overview

Phillipe Pinel, the doctor who became the world's first psychiatrist, struck the chains and shackles from the mentally ill in the midst of the French Revolution. Patients were living in hideous conditions, exposed to the public as freaks, and received no useful treatment. A patient in the Bic tre asylum/jail, former ministerial assistant Guillaume Lalladiere, manages, unchained, to escape. Hiding from hospital attendant pursuers in the streets at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843868520
• ISBN13: 9781843868521
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"